The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-10-26

before going to bed. Nature abhors q
vacuum. This is one OF the prescriptions
ike.)
Read light literature before going to bed.
Read nothing after supper. Walk mile
in the open air Just before bedtime.
Go to your room an hour before retir-
ing, and read until bedtime. Give up
smoking altogether.
If you are a smoker. a cigar just before
retiring will soothe and tranquilizs your
nerves until you can't keep awake.
Don't think about sleeping; you scare
away slumber by wooiDg the drowsy god.
Resolutely resolve as you lie down that
you will go to sleep, and sleep will come
naturally.
Take warm bath, ana go from the tub
into bed.
Take cold sponge bath, Jump into bed,
and you'll be asleep before your head
Walk slowly about your room half an
hour.
Lie on your right side, with your cheek
on your hand.
Lie on your left side, with your head
resting on your arm.
Count up to one thousand. CT tried this
inhuman bit OF idiocy one night. came
very near falling asleep two or three times,
but was startled wide awake by suddenly
count, and had to begin over again. This
cure kept me awake one whele night, when
i was so sleepy / could scarcely hold my
eyes open. The friend who gave me this
prescription is not living now. She was q
woman, and could not, as a gentleman
offer her violence. So l dosed box of
marshmallows with Rough on Rats, and
sent them to herr
Drink milk. This, according to my ex-
perience, is the best prescription in the
lot. 1t twill make you sleep better than ali
the bromides going, which are snares and
decisions. But milk diet not only makes
you sleep at night, but you want to sleep
all the next day. 1t makes you intolerably
stupid all the time. 1t is a very pleasant,
balsawake feeling, If you have nothing else
to do but to enjoy falling asleep at any
time and in all manner of places, like Cot
vile in the best-tOld story of these times,
"Indisn Summer" but if you have any
work to do ii is EMBARRASSING
So, what is a sleepless man who wants to
sleep going to do? III he eats a light
luncheon, smokes a mild cigar, reads Bun.
ner an h0nr, walks mile in the air, comes
back and walks another mile about his
room, takes a sponge bath, cold, followed
by tub bath, warm, drinks pint of
milk, jumps into bed and lies on both
sides, with his head on one arm and one
hand, and counts q thousand, it will be
time to get I'D, anyhow, and he can have a
few nervous fits during the day.
1t is fact, however, that even men who
think they suffer from sleeplessness do not
lie awske half so long as they imagine they
do. When a man says to me. 81 did not
close my eyes once sll night" I know he
lies. Not Intentionally, of course;
he thinks he was awake all
night; the probability is that he did
not get to sleep until two hours after
bis regular time, aud it seemed an age to
him. Really. 1t ism often that man lies
awake the whole night through. 1 am not
ply stefan. and cannot speak by the book,
but believe that men flo about their
sleepless nights more than any other Ill to
which our weak humanity is neir. Now,
take your own case you remember the
last time you lay awake all night, don't
you? Yes, see you do. Well, don't you
remember that same night you heard the
clock strike two, and then the next time
you heard it, it struck seven? Yes, l see
you do. Well, that's one of the myster-
les about insomnia that is dlfilculs to ex-
plain. RoRERT J. BURDErTE.